Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has unveiled two new in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already live in Copilot, and MAI-1-Preview, the company’s first end-to-end…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell’s experiment with AI-driven voice order takers in drive-thrus has run into problems: glitches, abuse by…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut in…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House reportedly instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to put xAI’s Grok chatbot back on…
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary Researchers used an AI screening tool to analyse roughly 15,000 open-access journals for signs of dubious publishing practice and flagged…
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary This Nature Podcast long read (audio) accompanies a feature exploring how scientists are trying to…
Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban Summary Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi, has reiterated his company’s rejection of embedding generative AI into the…
Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations Summary Microsoft AI (MAI) has announced two in-house models: MAI-Voice-1, a very fast text-to-speech generator, and MAI-1-preview, a mixture-of-experts model intended for…
Five years – that’s how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out Summary Anthropic is changing the default data-retention policy for its Claude chat service: conversations on…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported that Personal Systems revenue rose 6% year-on-year to $9.9bn in its fiscal third…
